Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1331. Wound
As Lan had predicted, the sound of his heavy crossbow firing attracted the attention of the Healing Church.

They deployed some personnel to this area.

But Lan En relied on his superb mobility, his silent and stealthy footwork, and the complex terrain of the Church Town and Yharnam.

After all, I didn't get into trouble again.

After all, he killed Miklash too quickly and too easily.

When Lan En left the area where the Healing Church's reaction was the most intense, he found that Maria was already standing with her head down with Adeline at the entrance of the tunnel where they came out of Old Yharnam.

This female hunter who was born into a blood noble family was indeed an outstanding strong person. She fought with the people from the Healing Church who surrounded her for a long time, but there was not a single hole in her one-shoulder cloak.

"You look disappointed."

Lan En was weighing two packages in his hands, each containing a piece of the Son of God's body, and was speaking to Maria who was looking up at him.

"Didn't you find your teacher? The [First Hunter] Geman?"

Maria shook her head at first, her face solemn, and then answered: "I didn't find it, but this shouldn't be the case. Such a big thing happened, the teacher can't possibly not know, and where else can he go?"

As she spoke, Maria pulled down her tricorn hat, letting its shadow cover her worried face.

"This night, everything seemed to collapse."

"Oh, right." Maria asked, as if to divert her attention, "What did you mean when you told me 'don't go too far'?"

At this point, Lan En frowned and looked uncertain.

The expressions of the two people seemed to have switched in a short period of time.

"No, it's hard to say now." The demon hunter sighed slightly, and looked at Adeline, who was trying to encourage herself even though she was so nervous that her fingers were unconsciously clenched together. "It's just a guess that has not been verified."

"What about us now?"

Maria lost interest because she didn't find a teacher she trusted. She didn't ask any more questions and just continued to talk about the current situation.

"Now." Lan En held up the two large packages in his hands, "We have to go to the small fishing village again to the scene of the murder."

"He's already a corpse." Maria sniffed subconsciously. She was a Yharnamite obsessed with blood after all. "Sending the corpse back will appease the god?"

"Calm the Great God down?" Lan En pursed his lips and shook his head. "No, I just want Him to rest in peace."

"Even for humans, mistakes and large numbers of deaths can trigger a series of terrible consequences. Sharp and crazy spirits and emotions, combined with death, are the most terrifying catalysts."

"A Son of God who was murdered before he was born. At least, I want to hold a funeral ceremony for Him. Otherwise."

Otherwise, this nightmare is the consequence of the so-called 'wrongful death of a Son of God'.

But Lan En didn't make his words clear.

Because even if he said it, could these people in the nightmare really understand it?
Without any more difficult battles, they left the church town again and quickly left the still burning Old Yharnam.

Maria's carriage from Cainhurst was still waiting outside Yharnam. Fortunately, it was outside Yharnam, otherwise it would have probably been burned.

But when Lan En was in the carriage, putting the upper and lower parts of the Son of God's body into a bag, the demon hunter's hand suddenly stopped.

Adeline and Maria were both fidgeting at this moment, immersed in the smell of the Son of God's blood.

Only Maria, who had better self-control, noticed the pause.

"Is this body wrong?"

Maria asked cautiously.

Although she was usually a strong and decisive hunter, if it weren't for Lan En that night, she estimated that she would be no better than a headless fly.

At least on her own she couldn't even see the underlying color of the Healing Church.

But Lan En just lowered his head, and slowly and carefully stroked the huge wound on the back of the Son of God's body with his fingers, as if he was using his own experience and touch to feel this huge wound.

This should be the fatal wound that killed Him.

However, this wound was not caused by a sword.

Before, when fighting with Ludwig, the first hunter of the church who witnessed the moonlight from the beast transformation and climbed out of the abyss of bestiality said that it was he who dealt the fatal blow to the orphan of Kos.

However, whether it was the finely crafted transformable weapon made by the Healing Church workshop that Ludwig was carrying at the beginning, or the other one, the [Holy Moonlight Sword] that was now in Lan's hand, they should not have been able to inflict such a wound.

What is this
Lan's mind was racing, but Maria's questioning drew his attention back.

"No, it's nothing."

Lan En's fingertips moved away from the huge wound on the Son of God's body, and he shook his head and spoke.

There was still a hazy drizzle in the small fishing village.

The fires that the hunters had started from the great kill had gone out.

Only the smoking remains of wood and corpses were left. The heads of the fishmen had obvious signs of damage or torture, and it was almost obvious that the skulls had been treated inhumanely.

I'm afraid those hunters or scholars who accompanied them must have dug their fingers into the skulls and searched for something inside?
There are no enemies here anymore, only dead silence.

Lan led the way forward, while Maria followed behind, protecting Adeline.

Although the small fishing village was built by the fishermen here in a more complex and convoluted way than most places in Yanan due to the terrain, fortunately, the traces of the hunters' fighting and advancement are very obvious.

Under Lan's witcher vision, they followed all the way and finally found the place where the murder took place.

The three found an elevator in a building in the small fishing village.

The sound of the machinery running was also accompanied by the 'gurgling' sound of wet wood rolling in this damp and gloomy village.

“Those are all.”

On the elevator, Maria looked down through the hollow fence and uttered half a sentence with difficulty.

Adeline's reaction was even more obvious. The Blood Saint suddenly covered her mouth and let out a whimper from her throat that almost sounded like vomiting.

The ground where the elevator was about to land was covered with an unknownly thick layer of large, fat, white bugs.

The slippery skin resembles that of marine creatures such as squid.

The only acceptable point was that they all seemed to be dead and motionless. Therefore, this layer of insects, which was unknown how thick, did not wriggle like a wave, nor did it make a slippery friction sound.

Adeline's reaction was purely physiological, but Maria was an out-and-out Yharnam hunter, and her reaction was more of regret.

Because the appearance of these worms is exactly the same as the parasites that Lan En cultivated from the blood of gray blood disease patients in his previous experiments at the research center!
It's just that the size is bigger.

With a creak, the elevator stopped and Lan opened the gate.

"So." But Maria just lowered her head, looked at the thick insects outside the elevator, and spoke in an almost ridiculous tone.

"These are the bugs brought by the great god Kos, and these bugs will turn into gray blood disease in the human body?"

The parasites on the body of the superior were discovered by humans and brought back to Yharnam, becoming a man-made plague.

Now, the entire chain of events has been sorted out.

Lan En didn't say anything, just shook his head, carried the big cloth bag containing the two bodies, walked down the elevator, and went deeper into the cave.

Maria was a little dazed, and now it was Adeline who was supporting her.

The feel of a thick layer of sticky bugs under your boots makes your hair stand on end.

Going further in, there is a group of deformed women kneeling towards the depths of the cave.

The men in the small fishing village all became half-fishmen due to the influence of the ancient god Kos.

But the women seemed to have turned into snail girls, their bodies were slippery and pale, and they lived in snail shells.

The degree of this mutation seems to be very deep. When the upper human bodies they still retain stick out of the shells, even their internal organs are like conchs, wrapped around the outside of the human bodies instead of growing inside.

They didn't move, and perhaps that was why the hunters who had arrived earlier had no interest in killing them.

Further inside the cave is an exit that leads to a flat beach.

The ocean and the beach looked dirty and charred on this night.

Only the light reflected by the surging waves can make people distinguish where is sand and where is water.

A huge, pale corpse of a marine creature lay conspicuously in the filth.

His body is covered with a huge white membrane, and no one knows what the structure of the body underneath is. Extending from the membrane are many tentacles like those of soft-bodied creatures.

On the few normal limbs that were occasionally seen, there were fin-like organs growing on the elbow joints, as well as fish scales, webbed feet and the like.

Just like most of the supernatural creatures in Yharnam, their limbs grew in a messy manner.

Only this mess of corpses brings a sense of tranquility and desolation.

Very different from the craziness and bloodiness of the other stuff.

The waves washed over his body near the waterline, causing the flesh membrane and tentacles on one side of his body to slide passively.

Lan found a wrecked fishing boat, put the body of the orphan of Kos on the boat, put it back together, and closed his deformed hands peacefully on his chest.

His skinny body revealed the outline of bones; His body had not grown well at all.

The skin didn't even have a chance to grow, so the face looks like that of a wrinkled old man.

A premature baby, an orphan.
It is said that the great god Kos is the ancient god of the ocean.

So sending the orphan's body back to the ocean would also be considered sending it back to his mother, right?

(End of this chapter)